McQuiston: Imagine Your Insurance Policy Doesn’t Fully Cover A Liability Loss … Then What?
By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
Imagine your child and his friends are playing with the new, family pup in the backyard. Suddenly, the dog bites your son’s friend in the face causing permanent harm. You are legally liable for the costs, and the limits on your homeowners policy aren’t enough to cover the damages.
Or this one…imagine your family is heading to your favorite restaurant for dinner on a rainy night. Slippery conditions cause the car to slide off the pavement onto the shoulder. Your spouse over-corrects, sending the family car straight into the Read More
Butcher: Los Alamos High School EcoClub
By CHARLOTTE BUTCHER
LAHS Senior
EcoClub Co-President
The young students at Los Alamos Public Schools deserve a better learning environment and a foreseeable future. As climate change is worsening, so is our environment around us.
The earth’s temperature has been rising at an accelerating rate. Temperatures of oceans around the world are rising, and deserts are drying. Even in our town, we have seen an increase in forest fires, higher temperatures, and raised rates of dry air.
Many believe that cars and big manufacturing industries are the main cause of climate change. In reality, schools Read More
Posts From The Road: Bishop’s Palace In Galveston, Texas
Bishop’s Palace Exterior: The exterior of the Bishop’s Palace seen from the front of the house reveals the size and ornate details of this magnificent castle. The house was built for Walter Gresham and family between 1887 and 1892. The house was sold to the Galveston-Houston Archdiocese in 1923 for Bishop Christopher Byrne hence the name Bishop’s Palace. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Stairs: After entering the front door of Bishop’s Palace one takes a few steps into the octagonal rotunda where the 40 foot tall mahogany stairway was the focus of the room. Rare woods were used throughout Read More
Fr. Glenn: Caining Abel
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
It’s difficult to not behold in utter astonishment the news today concerning Israel and Jews, Gaza and Palestinians. Who would have thought even a year ago that supposed civilized persons would again be calling for destruction of Jews—the elimination of any people—once again, as if each man, woman and child of them were some monolithic evil in the world. (A quote seen recently: “Hitler knew how to deal with those people.” (!)) We even see U.S. Congresspersons and academicians implicitly (sometimes explicitly) refusing to condemn outright murder and even joining in with Read More
Home Country: See What Happens
Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
Old Jasper Blankenship went out to hunt deer the other day, the same way he’s done for decades now. He’s slower than he used to be, of course. Deer season has changed a lot for Jasper over the many years he’s been at it. As a kid, he couldn’t wait until he was old enough to get a license, because he wanted to bring a buck home to show his family. Not just any buck, either, but a big one.
As a young man, he wanted to see how many hunting seasons he could have in one year: duck, goose, quail, pheasant, deer, about anything that moved.
As a middle-aged man, he turned to the technology of hunting Read More
Robinson: So Long To A Friend And Fellow Traveler
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
My friend and long-time colleague Harold Morgan passed away last month. Harold started writing for this small syndicate in 2004.
He spent a career in numbers as founding editor of New Mexico Business Journal and Sunwest Bank’s chronicler of New Mexico’s economy, although he once wrote, “Grains of salt should be issued with the first unveiling of all numbers. Full salt tablets should come with more complex numbers.” He loved wading into data in a search. As a tribute to Harold, I’d like to share some excerpts from his 17-plus years Read More
Catch Of The Week: The Check Is(n’t) In The Mail
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
So my oldest son decided to sell something on Craigslist, and he asked me, “Mom, does this sound weird to you?” Before he even told me what it was, I told him yes, because it’s Craigslist… Anyway, he went on to tell me that the person wanting to buy his item wanted to mail him a cashier’s check and was also going to pay him an extra $100 to hold the item. In between snorting laughter, I managed to tell him that yes, it did indeed sound weird.
What’s so wrong with payment via cashier’s checks? Well, I am glad you asked, because the answer is: IT IS ALWAYS A SCAM. Read More
